Vendors Preview Upcoming Books

Sun., June 16, 1996

Newsday

More than 42,000 bookstore owners, literary agents, sales reps, publishers, vendors, authors and other industry players were expected in Chicago this weekend at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association.

It’s a time to sample, promote and write orders for books scheduled for publication in the months ahead and the fall season in particular.

As of Monday morning, for example, Hyperion was expecting more than 900 conventioneers to join Oprah Winfrey for breakfast on Soldier Field and a mile-long “power walk” afterward to the McCormick Place Convention Center.

Besides Winfrey, other authors scheduled to meet and greet, sign autographs and help advance their upcoming books include Betty J. Eadie (“The Awakening Heart”), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (“Black Profiles in Courage”), Art Buchwald (“I’ll Always Have Paris”), John Edgar Wideman (“The Cattle Killing”), Mia Farrow (her overdue autobiography) and Neil Simon (“Rewrites”).

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